When did William W. Fitzhugh receive his PhD in anthropology?
William W. Fitzhugh received his PhD in anthropology on the 2nd of May 1970 with a focus on environmental archaeology and cultural systems of coastal Labrador.
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William W. Fitzhugh received his PhD in anthropology on the 2nd of May 1970 with a focus on environmental archaeology and cultural systems of coastal Labrador.
The Arctic Studies Center established by William W. Fitzhugh in 1988 operates within the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of History inside the Smithsonian Institution with divisions in Washington DC and Anchorage AK.
William W. Fitzhugh co-initiated major traveling exhibitions including Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo which ran from 1982 to 1984 and Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga which opened in 2000.
Recent investigations by William W. Fitzhugh have focused on reindeer herding along the forest-steppe border between Tuva and Mongolia.
The book Vikings: the North Atlantic Saga written by William W. Fitzhugh won the Society for American Archaeology Annual Book Award for 2001.